Archives for July 2012

The Central Calfornia Legal Services is honoring Mark L. Creede as a Champion of Justice. The Champions of Justice honors individuals who demonstrate a faithful dedication to ensuring all people have equal and meaningful access to justice. Mr. Creede was selected because under his leadership, Lang, Richert & Patch has become the most well known and respected firm in the Central Valley committed to providing pro bono legal assistance.
It is an especially fitting award as Lang, Richert & Patch … [Read more...]

Lang, Richert & Patch is proud to recognize its 2012 recipients of the Super Lawyer and Rising Star awards. Every year, the San Francisco-based publication Law and Politics honors outstanding lawyers across seventy practice areas who have attained a high level of professional achievement and peer recognition. The Super Lawyer honors are bestowed upon attorneys only after a multi-phased process that includes nomination and evaluation by peers as well as research by an independent source. Only top … [Read more...]

Thirty-five elementary school students at Jane Addams Elementary school in southwest Fresno started the 2011-2012 school year with brand new school supplies thanks to employees at Lang, Richert & Patch. Remembering the excitement and joy that having new school supplies brings to young children, employees eagerly purchased numerous boxes of crayons, markers, pencils, erasers, filler paper, scissors, to fill thirty-five brand new backpacks donated by the attorneys at the firm. After … [Read more...]

The Fresno County Bar Association recognized Lang, Richert & Patch as a Book'Em Book Drive Five Star Donor during a recent monthly luncheon.
The Fresno Bar Association teamed up with the United Way to encourage Central Valley law firms to collect books to provide to local schools through the "Book'Em" Book Drive. The employees at Lang, Richert & Patch are committed to improving their community and quickly mobilized to meet the need. They feverishly looked for books in their homes, … [Read more...]

It all started with an e-mail from then Fresno County Bar Association President, Timothy Sullivan, informing us of the cancellation of the annual Fresno County Young Lawyer Association Volunteer Food Day at the Community Food Bank because there was not enough food on the shelves to fill boxes. The magnitude of what this would mean for local families led Lang, Richert & Patch employees to, in a matter of three weeks, fill two Community Food Bank barrels with food and provide more than one … [Read more...]

Lang, Richert & Patch is proud to announce Sam R. Welch as the winner of the 2012 Frank H. Lang Merit Scholarship. Awarded annually and based solely on merit, the Scholarship is a grant of $1,000.00 towards payment of law school tuition.
Mr. Welch is a second year law student at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He grew up in a small town at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where his mother still teaches kindergarten at a local public school and his father manages a … [Read more...]